Mount Vang
| Mount Vang | ||
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| height | 1600 m | |
| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 25 ′ 45 ″ S , 67 ° 8 ′ 21 ″ W | |
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Mount Vang is an isolated mountain of the Palmerland in the south of the Antarctic Peninsula, around 1600 m high . It rises south of George VI Sound and 130 km east-southeast of the Eklund Islands .
The two US polar explorers Finn Ronne and Carl R. Eklund (1909–1962) discovered it during their 1750 km long sleigh excursion from Stonington Island to the Eklund Islands and back as part of the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941 ). Another sighting succeeded in an overflight on December 3, 1947 in the course of the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948). The expedition leader Finn Ronne named the mountain after the Brooklyn- based portrait photographer Knut Vang (* 1900), who came from Norway and provided photographic materials to his expedition.
Web links
- Mount Vang in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Vang on geographic.org (English)